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Yang's Dumb Blog: How Bad Are the Raiders?

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And not so dumb thoughts from other people. Saturday, December 5, 2009. How Bad Are the Raiders? Since 2003, UCLA football has won 44 regular season games. During this same period, the Raiders won 27 games, despite the fact that they played 24 more regular season games than UCLA. Labels: appropos of nothing. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ready and Reach - Paddling According to the Mind of Scott. Here’s a shot I took of LARD at the 2014 Long Beach Dragon Boat Races. The Mystery of Autism. Wow, that ...

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Yang's Dumb Blog: So Many Cinemas, So Few Letters

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And not so dumb thoughts from other people. Monday, January 31, 2011. So Many Cinemas, So Few Letters. There's Hollywood Dollywood and Bollywood, but did you know there's a Kollywood and a Mollywood? Well, according to wikipedia, here are the following -ollywoods. Collywood: Columbia, as in the country of. Gollywood: ficticious cyber site from a PBS kids series. Bollywood, Jollywood, Kollywood, Mollywood and Tollywood are all in India. Lollywood and Pollywood are in Pakistan. Labels: appropos of nothing.

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Yang's Dumb Blog: These Are a Few Of My Favorite Things

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And not so dumb thoughts from other people. Tuesday, December 21, 2010. These Are a Few Of My Favorite Things. Data nerd link dump! Is an intuitive way to visualize world data. Not as intuitive, but nonetheless very powerful, are these online apps that lets you slice and dice US census data. Current Population Survey Data. And general attitude survey data. Going way back to 1972. Want to know how college-educated women view abortion during the past 40 years? This is how you find out. The Mystery of Autism.

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Yang's Dumb Blog: Omphaloskepsis

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And not so dumb thoughts from other people. Wednesday, July 14, 2010. How's this for meta? Thanks to the website " I Write Like. I get to submit a series of prior blog entries to see which famous writers I write like. So while my various blog entries returned a fairly diverse array of writers (Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Brown, HP Lovecraft, and Arthur C Clarke), the one runaway winner was the late David Foster Wallace, whose work "Infinite Jest" is generally considered to be both well-written and abstruse. The d...

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Yang's Dumb Blog: All Eyes on Dubai

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And not so dumb thoughts from other people. Sunday, November 29, 2009. All Eyes on Dubai. That Dubai was teetering was not unexpected; it built things that were the very definition of conspicuous consumption. But that it defaulted on their loans nonetheless make many people nervous- how far is the contagion? Which counter party loaded up Dubai debt such that you will suffer collateral damage? How bad will this disrupt the very tentative recovery? Labels: 2009 finance clusterfuck. The Mystery of Autism.

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Yang's Dumb Blog: The Responsible Shareholder

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And not so dumb thoughts from other people. Wednesday, June 9, 2010. I agree shareholder short-sightedness leads to short-sighted management. Look at a lot of the LBOs which loaded the acquired company with debt. The shareholders make a quick buck, the company usually struggle to get out from that mountain of debt. So instead of getting an egg from a chicken everyday, you kill the chicken, eat the meat, get some short term satisfaction at the expense of future gains. June 10, 2010 at 12:45 PM. My conject...

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Yang's Dumb Blog: Fun With IPUMS

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And not so dumb thoughts from other people. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. Ipumsorg lets you play with Census data, which is pretty powerful for all sorts of research topics. It also has this nice online analysis tool. That lets you generate charts on the fly. For example, let's say you want to look at homeownership rate for Asian/Pacific Islanders in the San Francisco Metro Area, using the tool above, you can get a graph like this:. How to get the chart above:. Labels: ask an economist. Originally preached...

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Yang's Dumb Blog: Qing Dynasty's Keynesian Policy

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And not so dumb thoughts from other people. Monday, December 13, 2010. Qing Dynasty's Keynesian Policy. Perhaps the most extreme example of this government-spending-during-crisis theme (be it Keynesian, Fisher or Koo, each with their own slightly different takes) is the Qing Imperial Granary. Which bought up grain in time of good harvests and give them out for free during famine times. It conforms to the basic Keynesian/Koo theme:. You save up a rainy day fund during good times. This is also why you need...

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Yang's Dumb Blog: Mark-to-Market and the Tragedy of the Commons

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And not so dumb thoughts from other people. Thursday, January 21, 2010. Mark-to-Market and the Tragedy of the Commons. Going back to accounting 101. The accounting worth of a company, or its equity, is assets minus liabilities. So if Acme Inc has $100 worth of equipments and owes someone $80, then its "worth" is $20. Let's pretend there aren't messy little things such as stocks that mucks up the neat little world above.). On paper, even if hypothetically it knows that the price will come back up tomorrow.

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Yang's Dumb Blog: How Big Was the Chrysler Buzz?

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And not so dumb thoughts from other people. Sunday, February 13, 2011. How Big Was the Chrysler Buzz? The "Imported from Detroit" ad easily won the buzz war amongst Super Bowl ads, but can we quantify that? As it turns out, we can do that via google insights, which tabulates internet interest:. Click on image for a clearer view). That giant red spike is represents search intensity for Chrysler, for comparison, the other trend lines are its auto competitors: VW, Chevy, Kia and BMW. The Mystery of Autism.